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Who is-- ?Budge, Kathleen M.
Summary: Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen Budge and William Parrett dispel harmful myths, explain the facts, and urge educators to act against the debilitating effects of poverty on their students. They share the powerful voices of teachers - many of whom grew up in poverty - to amplify the five classroom practices that permeate the culture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ASCD 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 BudSummary: As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. Essays provide new insights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 NASDesmond, Matthew
Summary: "The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Summary: "Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers-primarily women-who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.83 FRERivlin, Gary.
Summary: "A unique and riveting exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries--the business of poverty"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.46 RIVSmiley, Tavis
Summary: Presents an analysis of the recent increase of poverty in the United States, even among the middle class, describing twelve steps that can be undertaken to give the poor more equitable access to housing, education, and health care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SmileyBooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.22 SMISummary: "A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 GOIGoldblum, Joanne Samuel
Summary: "Joanne Samuel Goldblum, CEO and founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, and Colleen Shaddox, a journalist and activist, give a book shedding light on the realities faced by those living in poverty across the United States and provide a road map foreradicating poverty via policy changes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 GOLBerg, Joel.
Summary: Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation-- the modern breadline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.80973 BERAdler, Kevin F.
Summary: "Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or did you avert your gaze? When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose--in ourselves and as a society--when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 ADLEdin, Kathryn J.
Summary: "A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harrisand her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 EDICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 EDIArnade, Chris
Summary: "Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.509 ARNEubanks, Virginia
Summary: "The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 EUBEdin, Kathryn
Summary: "Three of the nation's top scholars, known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America, turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 EDIGeronimus, Arline T.
Summary: "Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1089 GEREdelman, Peter B.
Summary: As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulations against behavior including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 EDEMessenger, Tony
Summary: "In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished. "His Pulitzer Prize winningseries on debtors' prisons in Missouri made a serious difference in real people's lives and his book will be a must read for a nation seeking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 MESKim, Anne
Summary: "Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs such as the earned income tax credit, Medicaid, and affordable housing vouchers and subsidies. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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Summary: Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explore the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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Summary: Describes the life and career of the 266th pope, including his early life in Argentina, his decision at sixteen to become a priest, and his work to help end poverty and aid United States and Cuban relations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRALong, McKenzie
Summary: "One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii This land is your land. When it comes to national monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more fraught. Gold Butte in Nevada, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LONHumphries, Stan.
Summary: "What's the best way to spot the next best neighborhood? Is spring or the dead of winter the best time to put your home on the market? Do street names affect price (Swamp Road vs. Gingerbread Lane)? These are the type of real estate truisms that we all think we know the answers to, but we don't. The rules of real estate have changed dramatically in the past five years, and the old rules no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.3309 RASThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020